Mike Quigley Quotes

Superfluous bureaucracies and the system of file-keeping and paper-shuffling that is enforced by them … are totally alien to Islam

We can get rid of red tape.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

Almost everything the government runs becomes mediocre in time ... bureaucracy leads to mediocrity.

The decision makers at HUD appear to have carried the reduction of paperwork to the extreme. There are practically no records.

The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.

The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

Technology is a continuum. It's constantly getting lower-cost and easier to use, and you see that, and that's true with our company.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.

There will be no cost drag from digital by 2020.

The Accenture hybrid class solution for Microsoft Azure will provide a new wave for our clients to transform to a truly enterprise wide hybrid cloud environment.

Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.

The investments and costs you have to put into digitalising means there will be an incentive for companies to merge.

Computerization eliminates the middleman

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.